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S. Rept. 118-180 1 (2024-06-03)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaggx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Calendar No. 411 118TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session SENATE 118-180 WINNEBAGO LAND TRANSFER ACT OF 2023 JUNE 3, 2024.-Ordered to be printed Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 1240] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill, H.R. 1240, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from the Army Corps of Engineers to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re- ports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE The purpose of H.R. 1240 is to transfer approximately 1,585 acres of land, currently administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to be held in trust for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska as part of the Tribe's reservation. BACKGROUND AND NEED The Winnebago Tribe is a federally-recognized Tribe with a res- ervation located on the banks of the Missouri River in both Ne- braska and Iowa. In the 1830s, the federal government began to forcibly remove the Winnebago Tribe from its homelands in Wis- consin, to Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, and finally, in 1865, to its present-day reservation in Nebraska and Iowa.' IS. REP. No. 45-747, (1879). See also Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Tribal History, ABOUT Us, WINNEBAGO TRIBE, https://winnebagotribe.com/tribal-history/ (last visited May 28, 2024). 49-010